British League of Rights
Founded in 1971 British League of Rights (German: British League of Rights ) is an offshoot of the Australian League of Rights . It is an " anti-Semitic and right-wing radical " political group. The British League opposed Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC).
From the early 1970s it was led by Don Martin, a former member of the Australian Young Liberals . Under Martin's leadership, the membership of the British League grew . Lady Jane Birdwood of the Conservative Monday Club became the general secretary. Around 1974 the British League of Rights became part of the World Anti-Communist League , replacing the Foreign Affairs Circle of Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, who left the World Anti-Communist League because of its anti-Semitism. In 1975 the British League entered into an alliance with Britons Publishing Company , a publisher founded by Henry Hamilton Beamish from the right-wing British organization The Britons .
The British League was a member of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights , founded in 1972 , an umbrella organization for the rights of the British Commonwealth in which the Australian League of Rights and Canadian League of Rights and New Zealand League of Rights were also members. The British League hosted the fourth conference of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights in 1985 , an umbrella organization founded by Eric Butler , leader of the Australian League of Rights .
Don Martin resigned from the leadership of the political association in 2001 because of a campaign by Gerry Gable in Searchlight magazine against him and became a member of the Federation of Small Businesses , a membership organization for the interests of the British middle class .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley (eds.): Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations , p. 177, Pinter 2000
- ^ Paul Spoonley: The Politics of Nostalgia: racism and the extreme right in New Zealand. P. 197, The Dunmore Press 1987
- ^ Paul Spoonley: The Politics of Nostalgia . P. 102 (see above)